Choosing the Jesus Way: American Indian Pentecostals and the Fight for the Indigenous Principle

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Native Pentecostals, the Indigenous Principle, and Religious Practice 1 chapter 1 The Indigenous Principle: Pentecostal Missionary Theology and the Birth of the Assemblies of God’s Home Missions to American Indians 21 chapter 2 The Indigenous Principle on the Ground: American Indians, White Missionaries, and the Building of Missions 47 chapter 3 The Lived Indigenous Principle: New Understandings of Pentecostal Healing, Native Culture, and Pentecostal Indian Identity 79 chapter 4 Institutionalizing the Indigenous Principle: The American Indian College and Mesa View Assembly of God 115 chapter 5 The Fight for National Power and the Indigenous Principle: The Development of the Indian Representative Position and the Native American Fellowship 147 Epilogue: American Indian Pentecostals in the Twenty-First Century 171 Notes 179 Bibliography 203 Index 211 A section of illustrations follows page 109. This page intentionally left blank ...